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Dominion Museum Bulletin. 13 ...
Author: Dominion Museum Bulletin
Author: Dominion Museum (N.Z.)Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Bulletin
Author: Inalienable Possessions
Author: Annette B. WeinerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520076044
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
"Weiner provides not only a new perspective on social and natural reproduction but also a framework through which to compare societies. This is an original point of view that will have real effects on the direction of future fieldwork and comparative analysis."—Ivan Karp, Smithsonian Institution
Maori Music
Author: Mervyn McLeanPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775581187
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This book is the best introduction available to Maori music &– the instruments played, the songs and dance styles and what they were used for, performance, composition, teaching, etc. Based on 30 years of fieldwork that yielded 1300 recorded songs and hundred of pages of interviews and eyewitness accounts, this is a classic book.
Material Culture
Author: Victor BuchliPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415267212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Author: Extinct Birds
Author: Julian P. HumePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472937457
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from travellers' tales. This second edition is expanded to include dozens of new species, as more are constantly added to the list, either through extinction or through new subfossil discoveries. The book is the result of decades of research into literature and museum drawers, as well as caves and subfossil deposits, which often reveal birds long-gone that disappeared without ever being recorded by scientists while they lived. From Great Auks, Carolina Parakeets and Dodos to the amazing yet almost completely vanished bird radiations of Hawaii and New Zealand via rafts of extinction in the Pacific and elsewhere, this book is both a sumptuous reference and astounding testament to humanity's devastating impact on wildlife.
Journals and Printed Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania
Author: Hostile Shores
Author: Bruce McFadgenPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 177558089X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Evidence from several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, demography, history, and the Maori oral tradition, are combined in this analysis of the many volcanic periods that shaped New Zealand. This authoritative, groundbreaking study examines the consequences on the coastal landscape and its people, from the first Polynesian settlers until European colonization in the 18th century. A study of the wave of tsunamis that struck New Zealand in the 15th century, known as the &“big crunch,&” and precipitated various crises that led to cultural change and much warfare is also included.